Lucy Watson revealed that she had a ‘long labour with complications’ as she shared an album of birth snaps to her Instagram on Thursday.
The former Made In Chelsea star, 33, and her husband James Dunmore, 32, welcomed the little one into the world last week and named him Willoughby James Watson-Dunmore.
The influencer announced in September 2023 she was pregnant with their first child and called the baby a ‘little miracle’ after a three-year battle to conceive.
Now, a week on from giving birth she has shared more details with her fans – telling them it was a tough labour and she subsequently spent five long days in hospital.
She also shared adorable snaps cuddling her newborn just after giving birth as she lay in her hospital bed.
Lucy Watson revealed that she had a ‘long labour with complications’ as she shared an album of birth snaps to her Instagram on Thursday
The former Made In Chelsea star, 33, and her husband James Dunmore, 32, welcomed the little one into the world last week and named him Willoughby James Watson-Dunmore
Now, a week on from giving birth she has shared more details with her fans – telling them it was a tough labour and she subsequently spent five long days in hospital
Another showed her holding him in a mirror selfie as he wore a cute bear outfit.
She also shared the moment James carried him out of hospital in a baby carrier as well as a snap of her handsome husband staring down at the newborn.
Lucy gushed that she had ‘dreamt of the moment’ she would be able to take her baby son home and admitted she ‘couldn’t stop staring at him’.
Lucy also shared her ‘last pregnant pic’ as she wore a comfortable white jumper and posed with James.
Lucy and James both looked every inch the doting parents as they posed with their son in a black and white snap – when they initially revealed the joyful birth news.
She captioned the heartwarming Instagram post: ‘He’s here [heart emoji] 2/3/24.’
Her followers and pals were quick to send their congratulations as sister Tiffany wrote: ‘My beautiful nephew love him so much’.
Lucy announced her engagement to James in September 2020, after meeting on the E4 set of Made In Chelsea in 2015.
She also shared the moment James carried him out of hospital in a baby carrier as well as a snap of her handsome husband staring down at the newborn
Lucy gushed that she had ‘dreamt of the moment’ she would be able to take her baby son home and admitted she ‘couldn’t stop staring at him’
Lucy also shared her ‘last pregnant pic’ as she wore a comfortable white jumper and posed with James
Lucy also shared a snap of James eating fries in bed as they spent five days in hospital for the birth
Her little one looked adorable in his cot
She told how she was ‘obsessed’ with James as she shared another image oh him cuddling Willoughby
The former reality stars tied the knot in a romantic ceremony in Kefalonia, Greece, in the summer of 2021.
In January, Lucy shared pictures of her bare bump as she showed off how much her body had grown in the last three months.
Heading into her eighth month of pregnancy, Lucy posted an up-to-date picture of her tummy in a full-length mirror.
She compared this with a picture from three months before and was ‘mind blown’ by the progress and how much a female body changes during pregnancy.
A few months earlier, in October, Lucy and James shared snaps of their gender reveal party – which took place in September – in which they found they would be having a baby boy.
Sharing pictures from her joyful gender reveal as she gathered her closest friends and family, the influencer took to Instagram in delight knowing she will have a son ‘so close in age’ to her nephew, her sister Tiffany Watson’s son Jude.
In a sweet snap during the gender party, the mother-to-be posed for a sweet photo with Tiffany and Jude, who she shares with husband Cameron McGeehan.
Tiffany’s little boy looked adorable in the little shirt that read: ‘I might be little but I’m going to be a big cousin’.
In awe of her gender reveal, Lucy thanked her fans the following day for their kind messages after sharing the happy news on Instagram.
She penned: ‘Thank you so much for all the lovely messages. We’re very excited about our baby boy… boy mumma coming in hot!
‘Here are some more pics from the (very) mini gender reveal we did last month…’
The reality star’s journey to pregnancy was an emotional one – as the couple struggled with fertility issues.
In a YouTube video discussing their fertility journey in November, Lucy opened up about how hard it was to stay strong throughout her journey as she described that period of her life as a ‘never-ending pit of negativity’.
Revealing how she used meditation as a coping mechanism while she was trying to conceive, she said: ‘Another kind of coping mechanism for trying to conceive is meditation.
‘I know it sounds ridiculous but sometimes you can feel so down and so like you’re in a never-ending pit of negativity, you just don’t know how to feel happy.
‘It’s hard because James and I have gone through this. We had this period of time in our life where it was thing after thing after thing, not only fertility related, and it could be hard at times for us to feel good and happy.’
She also candidly admitted that she is aware that there are no guarantees in pregnancy and her journey could end at any point.
Overcome with emotion, Lucy took a deep breath as she continued: ‘I am basically so grateful for where I am today.
‘I’m pregnant with my son. Obviously I know this journey could end tomorrow, or the next day like I don’t know how long this is going to last or if it if we’ll make it to the end or get to the point of having a baby in arms.
Lucy and James both looked every inch the doting parents as they posed with their son in a black and white snap – when they initially revealed the joyful birth news
Shortly after the couple revealed his name in another Instagram post – Willoughby James Watson-Dunmore
The influencer announced in September 2023 she was pregnant with their first child as she posed with husband James while on holiday in Mykonos
Lucy and James married in a lavish ceremony in 2021 after meeting on the reality show Made in Chelsea
‘But I’m just joying enjoying every moment and just living for every day because we’ve fought to get here and we are so grateful to be here.
‘I’m just choosing to love every moment really and it’s surreal, still to this day it is surreal but it is the most amazing feeling and I really hope that anyone out there who is struggling gets to experience it too and I hope that this video has helped.’
The reality star-come-author announced her engagement to her partner James in September 2020, after meeting on the E4 set of Made In Chelsea in 2015.
She quit the show a year later.